State agriculture officials issue more rules to combat the spread of a deadly fish virus.  Beginning immediately, the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection is requiring all fish stocked into Wisconsin’s public waters to be tested specifically for the VHS virus that causes a wide variety of fish to bleed to death.

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It's been a long time since Jack Duffy was this excited over a big brown trout – since 1976, to be exact, when his fish set a new state record.  Duffy's 31-pound, 4-ounces brown trout held the state record for 10 years, and has subsequently been passed by several fish. Now word has come that a friend has moved the state record ahead by a couple pounds with a brown caught within a few miles of where Duffy set the record some 31 years ago.

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This week, 200 professional anglers come to the Detroit area to compete for $2.5 million in prizes in the Wal-Mart FLW Chevy Open Bass Tournament, with $150,000 going to the top pro.

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